As the Joe Biden’s Vice President stumps for her boss?
It could be seen as a effort to help Biden and set a foundation for a possible run for President in 2028 herself….
She should be looking forward for November AND FOUR years out….
After all….
The Governor from her home state California HAS been out ther for while doing the exact same thing….
When President Biden pushed Democrats to place South Carolina first on their presidential primary calendar, the geography for the party’s political strivers changed. They are now working to build support not in mostly white Northern places but in a Southern state with a predominantly Black primary voting base that better represents the modern Democratic Party.
So when Vice President Kamala Harris arrived on Friday in Orangeburg, S.C., for her ninth visit to South Carolina since taking office, she came as a known quantity. While she and Mr. Biden are running for renomination without serious challengers, the relationships she has developed in the state are expected to play a part in lifting their ticket to a comfortable triumph on Saturday in the party’s first recognized primary election.
Ms. Harris’s trip, as well as her college tour last year and an ongoing circuit to defend abortion rights and promote the Democratic agenda, also served two larger purposes: working to shore up Mr. Biden’s lingering vulnerabilities with Black voters and young voters, and keeping the first woman and first woman of color to serve as vice president at the forefront for the next presidential contest in 2028….
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Ms. Harris was part of a parade of Biden campaign surrogates who have trekked to South Carolina to stump for the president in a primary whose result is hardly in question. Mr. Biden’s competition is Representative Dean Phillips of Minnesota, who is little known and has spent nothing on television ads in the state, and the self-help author Marianne Williamson, who attracted minimal support in the New Hampshire primary even without Mr. Biden on the ballot….
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The Democratic fund-raising giant Emily’s List, which works to elect women who support abortion rights, has said it will spend tens of millions of dollars to defend and promote Ms. Harris this year.
The group sees her success as a key extension of its mission to elevate more Democratic women to public office. The organization will be joined by other groups, including the National Women’s Law Center, that are preparing to act like campaign watchdogs, ready to denounce sexist and racist attacks against Ms. Harris.
Polling conducted by Emily’s List last year found that Ms. Harris had high favorability ratings among key portions of the Democratic coalition, including Black women, younger voters and college graduates. Still, she remained fairly unknown to many.
About a third of Democratic and independent voters, the group’s polling found, didn’t know her personal story, her background as California’s attorney general and junior senator, or what she had done as vice president….
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“She’s been here building real, connected relationships, specifically in the Black community, but also with women and young people as well,” Mr. Moore said. “Just her showing up to places goes a long way.”…
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